August 20, 1947 – April 03, 2011 Visitation: 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday with the family present from 6:00 to 8:00 Tuesday evening April 05, 2011 at Smith Funeral Home, Grinnell Funeral Service: 2:00 p.m. Wednesday April 06, 2011 at Grinnell Christian Church Interment: following funeral service April 06, 2011 at Hazelwood Cemetery, Grinnell […]
Oskaloosa. Henrietta Van Den Heuvel, 98, of Oskaloosa, died Sunday, April 3, 2011, at the Oskaloosa Care Center in Oskaloosa. She was born October 27, 1912, at Leighton, Iowa, the daughter of Bart and Elizabeth DeJong Groenendyk. She attended elementary school in Leighton, and then Central Academy in Pella, Iowa. On October 17, 1934, she […]
Last week, we asked you if you approved of the way President Obama was handling the situation in Iraq. 59 residents responded with 33 residents (56%) saying No, 20 residents (34%) saying Yes, and 6 residents (10%) saying Unsure. The Question of the Week poll is unscientific and doesn’t reflect the view of Osky News. […]
PELLA—The Central College softball offense had a long fuse Saturday but used a pair of fifth-inning explosions to sweep Wartburg College 10-0 and 10-2 in the Iowa Conference openers for both squads, extending its win streak to 18 games. First baseman Katie Tenboer (senior, Morrison, Ill.) hammered two homers and drove in five runs in […]
PELLA—Central College junior Emily Swartz (Eldora, South Hardin HS) won a third-set tiebreaker to secure a 5-4 women’s tennis victory over Simpson College Saturday in Pella. Swartz battled back from a 6-7 opening-set loss at No. 3 singles to defeat Simpson’s Allison Anderson 6-1 before taking the tiebreaker 1-0. Central also got singles wins from […]
PELLA—Limiting the Central College baseball team to just five hits, Wartburg College handed the Dutch their first Iowa Conference loss in a 5-2 decision Friday night. The Knights scored first, crossing the plate in the second inning with the help of a Central error. A double to right center brought in two more runs in […]
ST. LOUIS, MO.—All-Americans Ethan Miller (junior, Seymour) and Jill Ziskovsky (senior, Dallas Center, Dallas Center-Grimes HS) are leading the decathlon and heptathlon fields at the Washington Univ. (Mo.) Invitational track and field meet after one day of competition. Miller accumulated a first-day personal best of 3,835 points after five events. He achieved personal bests in […]
Mahaska County Soccer Club held an annual coaches clinic at the Lacey Recreation Complex on March 31st. Thirteen volunteer coaches participated in the clinic. Ian Bradley, The Iowa Soccer Association’s director of coaches, traveled from Des Moines to teach the clinic which included instruction in coaching, soccer plays as well as giving coach volunteers […]
March 07, 1940 – April 02, 2011 Martinsburg, Iowa Visitation: Family Present 5-7 p.m. April 05, 2011 at Fremont Funeral Chapel Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m. April 06, 2011 at Fremont Funeral Chapel Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, near Martinsburg, Iowa Richard Withers Martinsburg. Richard “Rocky” Wilford Withers, 71, of Martinsburg, died Saturday, April 2, 2011, at […]
Food prices are rising here in the United States and around the world. Searching for scapegoats, many pundits, professors and policymakers are pointing their fingers at the Corn Belt. Ethanol is grabbing ever-increasing shares of the nation’s grain production, making food scarcer and costlier. Or so we’re told. Iowa farmers have long suspected that there’s […]
